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August 4, 2018Comments Off on Stag party paid ‘drunk and hungry’ homeless man to tattoo name & postcode on forehead (VIDEO)

A homeless man who was paid €100 to get a stranger’s name branded on his forehead has broken his silence to tell of how he was led to a Benidorm tattoo parlour and persuaded by members of a stag party to get the bizarre inking. Known as Tomek, the Polish national has suggested he was drunkenly taken advantage of by ...

North Korea has not abandoned its nuclear and missile programs, despite this year’s earlier diplomatic breakthroughs and destruction of test sites, Reuters reports, citing a confidential UN paper. The leaked report is purportedly a six-month review by unnamed independent experts monitoring the implementation of United Nations sanctions on North Korea, and was submitted to the relevant UN committee late on ...

August 3, 2018Comments Off on 18 reported dead in helicopter crash in Russia

Published time: 4 Aug, 2018 03:43 Edited time: 4 Aug, 2018 03:59 A Mi-8 helicopter with passengers on board has crashed in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia, in Russia. According to preliminary reports, 18 people have died in the crash. According to an emergency services source cited by TASS, the helicopter was operated by the Utair airline. It was carrying ...

August 3, 2018Comments Off on US Secret Service & the Guardian face off over 'Russian spy' in embassy 'scoop'

US Secret Service has scolded the Guardian for “irresponsible and inaccurate” reporting on an alleged Russian spy at the US embassy in Moscow. Unfazed, the newspaper continued to spin the story calling it the ‘tip of the iceberg.’ The British newspaper, never one to pass up a good Russia scare story, published a fresh one on Friday, citing multiple intelligence ...

August 3, 2018Comments Off on ‘Insults and pathetic lies’: Russian diplomat slams WaPo over praise for Bellingcat MH17 claims

Russia has done everything to help the MH17 investigation, yet to its disgrace the Washington Post chooses to believe fake social media ‘investigators’ and cherry-pick facts, a senior Russian diplomat writes. Dmitry Polyanskiy, first deputy permanent representative at the Russian mission to the UN, sent an open letter to the Post on Friday, after a July 25 story in the ...

August 3, 2018Comments Off on Ecuador, which used to kick out US military, to open new US ‘Security Cooperation Office’

The United States will soon be cooperating with Ecuador in dealing with security issues through a new office. The previous government in Ecuador scaled down military cooperation with the Americans. The establishment of the new Security Cooperation Office, which was reported by Ecuadorean Defense Minister Oswaldo Jarrin on Thursday, is the latest move by President Lenin Moreno’s government to depart ...

August 3, 2018Comments Off on US ‘bears full responsibility’ for deadly airstrikes in Hodeida, Yemen Health Ministry says

The United States should be held accountable for Saudi-led airstrikes that hit a hospital and fish market, killing at least two dozen civilians in the Yemeni port, Health Ministry said as thousands protested the attack. A spokesman for the Houthi-affiliated health ministry said on Friday that “the United States bears full responsibility” for the deadly attack, adding that “the United ...

Right-wing activist Lauren Southern has fallen victim to yet another last-minute venue cancellation, after the owner of a New Zealand building recieved complaints about Southern and co-speaker Stefan Molyneux’s platform. The self-described “alt-media” pair was swinging by Auckland on the final stop in their antipodean tour, fresh off the back of visiting Australia, where Southern begged God not to “nuke Melbourne” for it’s ...

British officials are constantly pressuring their own police forces over the Salisbury and Amesbury poisoning cases, and wish to obscure the truth, according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova. The police are forced to investigate the poisonings “under tremendous political pressure,” Zakharova told reporters on Friday. The spokesperson also believes the British probes are compromised because of “high political ...

August 3, 2018Comments Off on 10ft shark terrifies tourists & shuts down beach after being attacked by ray (VIDEOS)

A 10ft long shark terrified tourists in Mallorca, Spain on Thursday, sparking the evacuation of a beach as the large fish lingered in the shallow waves of Cala Domingos. The tintorera shark appeared in the waters on Thursday, swimming close to the shoreline and causing panic among holidaymakers who fled the sea. The beach was shut down as a precaution. ...